Recommended Books

A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommendations from others are noted in (parentheses). The rest are my personal recommendations.

Programming

Building your core

• The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas
• Design Patterns - Gamma et al.
• Domain-Driven Design - Evans
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design - Vernon (via @mbthegreat)
• Coders at Work - Seibel
• Elements of Programming Style - Kernighan & Plauger
• Enterprise Design Patterns - Fowler
• Refactoring - Fowler
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson, Sussman & Sussman
• The C Programming Language - Kernighan (Good for Non-C programmers, too!)
• Code Complete - McConnell

Management / Psychology

Working with humans

• The Mythical Man Month - Brooks
• Please Understand Me - Keirsey
• Getting Real - Fried
• You're My Favorite Client - Monteiro (via @jasonsee)
• The One Minute Manager - Blanchard & Johnson (via Sara)
• The Lean Startup - Ries (via @leilis and @benbalter)
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations - Shirky (via @benbalter)
• Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook - Lopp (via @benbalter)
• The Innovator's Dilemma - Christensen (via @benbalter and @edgesmash)
• Producing Open Source Software - Fogel (via @benbalter)
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - DeMarco (via @benbalter and @edgesmash)
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom - Benkler (via @benbalter)
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary - Raymond (via @benbalter)
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires - Wu (via @konklone and @benbalter)
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Levy (via @benbalter)

Design

Making things for humans

• The Design of Everyday Things - Norman
• Don't Make Me Think - Krug
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Tufte
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design - Muller-Brockmann
• Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps - Bertin (via @tmcw)

Marketing

Getting things to humans

• Made to Stick - Heath (via @benbalter)
• Users, Not Customers - Shapiro (via @benbalter)
• The Long Tail - Anderson (via @benbalter)
• Principles of Marketing - Kotler & Armstrong (via @eshinn)
• Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project - Bloomstein (via @eshinn)

Philosophy / Fiction

Expanding your horizons

• The Elements of Style - Strunk & White
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - Suzuki
• Clock Of The Long Now (via @timmcdaniels)
• Mindfulness in Plain English - Gunaratana (via Jerrica)
• Neuromancer - Gibson